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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

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They researched the latest collaborative software. That’s why I love a tool like Yammer. Yammer is a microblogging application similar to Twitter, only it’s focused on businesses. Sending a message using Yammer is a combination of sending IMs and sending questions to email distribution lists.

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I Started a Blog But No One Cared | Social Media Strategery

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Include the link to your content in your team newsletters, meeting agendas/minutes, email signatures, briefings, Yammer messages, and any other communications vehicles you use. People have asked me to go out to Yammer and link back to their wiki pages. Post your blog entry, wiki content, forum thread, etc. Cross-promote.

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My Social Media Resolutions for 2009

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Use email less (internally) – One thing I’ve realized is that if I keep answering people’s emails, people will continue to send them to me, even if I explicitly tell them that they’re more likely to get a hold of me by posting their question/comment to my internal blog, contact me on Yammer, use my internal wiki page, etc.

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Don’t Be Scared Be Prepared – How to Manage a Social Media Crisis

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You need some sort of social media listening software in your organization. See this post on the 5 Categories of Social Media Software for some options. That software, however, is only good as its operator. Crisis management is a spectator sport. It’s hard to deal with a crisis you can’t find. That matters.

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Enterprise 2.0 Reflects the Culture | Social Media Strategery

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link] Lessons from “Why Software Sucks&# [.] Development professional development prsa public relations public sector scary smcedu social media sports tools Twitter web 2.0 Development professional development prsa public relations public sector scary smcedu social media sports tools Twitter web 2.0 Powered by Wordpress.

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Social Pros Podcast – Justin Levy, Citrix Online

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It’s nice to be back on Social Pros with you after last week’s live podcast in a sports bar in Tampa Bay with Scott Monty. I’ve seen a few, in particular, B2B software companies, use Pinterest as a visual gallery for whitepapers and videos and things like. You could have hung out on the podcast live in the sports bar.

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Takeaways from Launch Scale 2016

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David Sacks , former founder of Yammer and now CEO of Zenefits , answered Jason’s question about Trump’s election this way: “The country is very polarized right now. .” Jason Demant of Bento discusses the company’s successful business model change. Photo by JD Lasica). Trump, Clinton and free speech.

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